Computational Photography

dc.contributor.authorRaskar, Rameshen_US
dc.contributor.authorTumblin, Jacken_US
dc.contributor.authorMohan, Ankiten_US
dc.contributor.authorAgrawal, Amiten_US
dc.contributor.authorLi, Yuanzenen_US
dc.contributor.editorKarol Myszkowski and Vlastimil Havranen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-14T12:25:22Z
dc.date.available2015-07-14T12:25:22Z
dc.date.issued2007en_US
dc.description.abstractComputational photography combines plentiful computing, digital sensors, modern optics, actuators, probes and smart lights to escape the limitations of traditional film cameras and enables novel imaging applications. Unbounded dynamic range, variable focus, resolution, and depth of field, hints about shape, reflectance, and lighting, and new interactive forms of photos that are partly snapshots and partly videos are just some of the new applications found in Computational Photography. The computational techniques encompass methods from modification of imaging parameters during capture to sophisticated reconstructions from indirect measurements. We provide a practical guide to topics in image capture and manipulation methods for generating compelling pictures for computer graphics and for extracting scene properties for computer vision, with several examples. Many ideas in computational photography are still relatively new to digital artists and programmers and there is no upto- date reference text. A larger problem is that a multi-disciplinary field that combines ideas from computational methods and modern digital photography involves a steep learning curve. For example, photographers are not always familiar with advanced algorithms now emerging to capture high dynamic range images, but image processing researchers face difficulty in understanding the capture and noise issues in digital cameras. These topics, however, can be easily learned without extensive background. The goal of this presentation is to present both aspects in a compact form. The new capture methods include sophisticated sensors, electromechanical actuators and on-board processing. Examples include adaptation to sensed scene depth and illumination, taking multiple pictures by varying camera parameters or actively modifying the flash illumination parameters. A class of modern reconstruction methods is also emerging. The methods can achieve a photomontage by optimally fusing information from multiple images, improve signal to noise ratio and extract scene features such as depth edges. The presentation briefly reviews fundamental topics in digital imaging and then provides a practical guide to underlying techniques beyond image processing such as gradient domain operations, graph cuts, bilateral filters and optimizations. The participants learn about topics in image capture and manipulation methods for generating compelling pictures for computer graphics and for extracting scene properties for computer vision, with several examples. We hope to provide enough fundamentals to satisfy the technical specialist without intimidating the curious graphics researcher interested in recent advances in photography. The intended audience is photographers, digital artists, image processing programmers and vision researchers using or building applications for digital cameras or images. They will learn about camera fundamentals and powerful computational tools, along with many real world examples.en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersImaging and Renderingen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationEurographics 2007 - Tutorialsen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.2312/egt.20071066en_US
dc.identifier.pages557-624en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/egt.20071066en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.titleComputational Photographyen_US
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